This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WILLIAMS, SKEMP, HOOK, TOOMER, ROHDE, RHODE, RODE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/2659.1 Message Board Post: I see that you are a Volunteer posting ---but please keep your eyes open for anymore RHODE family info---that perhaps might be a lead for me. I was checking a message posted this week, when I was surprised to see this posting for George ROHDE. That name has been on my mind and lips frequently as I try to discover what happened to my dad's sister, Dorothy WILLIAMS, born about 1926 or 27 in Iowa---Dubuque I think. Dorothy's parents were Ivy Laura SKEMP WILLIAMS and Joseph Henry WILLIAMS of Dubuque. Ivy Laura and two daughters were living in Farley, Dubuque, Iowa on the 1930 census---Joseph Henry and two sons in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa with his mother Magdalena WILLIAMS in a rooming house--. When her parents could no longer pport a family, Dorothy's mother apparently gave Dorothy to a HOOK family member --before the 1930 census ---namely a Susie HOOK TOOMER. Or Susie married Geo. TOOMER later. But Dorothy was not with Susie and Geo. in Nebraska on the 1930 census. Knowing that Dorothy's siblings ended up in a Davenport Orphanage at the end of 1930 or earIy 1931, I find it quite interesting to read that George RHODE lived in Davenport, Iowa. Perhaps Dorothy was also placed in that orphanage --or maybe with a RHODE family . . ?? Hmmm. Perhaps the family story about Dorothy is a bit mixed up (as family stories often are)----but her sister Catherine does know that Dorothy was married to a man named ROHDE (RODE ? ) at Catherine's marriage in 1940 to Herbert HOOK in Delaware County. Catherine WILLIAMS HOOK was in touch with Dorothy for awhile--long enough to know that she had a couple children and married again after her ROHDE marriage. Then she just disappeared, but her sister Catherine and all Catherine's family have lived for more than 60 years in Manchester and Earlville, Delaware County, Iowa. Catherine died Dec. 2003. I tried hard to find Dorothy for her, but no luck. Now only 2 of the WILLIAMS children are still alive. Barbara (in a "home" in Dubuque) and Donald, living in Des Moines. Thanks for posting this obit ! Audrey Williams Stanaland